~ Joy in considering the soul as separate from the spirit ~

Hubbs says I use too many $.25 words in my postings, so I linked some key ones, cause _I_ need them to speak to You.
I got lots of Joy in considering the soul as separate from the spirit. Many people don't acknowledge that, me included, Lord. Yet, You do ! Why?

Well, the soul is my 2nd layer, it seems. It is the soul that speaks to me of me ! It is my spirit in conjunction with Your Spirit that speaks to me of You. My soul tells me what I want, what I think and what I feel. It's my mind, my will, my emotions and my personality. It doesn't say anything about You to me, it tells me about me.

I take that to mean that the soul is my expression of me as I make investment through the stewardship of my earthly development. My spirit is that which has the POWER to govern that development through connection with Your's. In order for my spirit to rule over my soul, I must allow its death in deference to the Spirit manifest in me. That means I have to allow death of my identity to accomplish Your perfection through my life.

Geeze, Lord, asking a bit much of me, aren't You? !!! was my first thought. ~ (That's my soul talking, look at it.) ~

So, in consultation with the Spirit, I hear this:

• Your soul can imprison you and become more than a duplicitous refuge if you allow it to. It WANTS to become an indentured identity! It wants to run the show, without deference. Weave the integral pieces. Rise from the confines and constrictions of deaths' coffins and handicaps. Pass THROUGH deaths' grievious and fear-ridden farse, holding My Hand. Don't lie there paralytic inside this soul's ineptitude for salvation. Receive My Presence as aspiration, oxygen for Resurrection! Live in the resurrection of my Pneu'ma manifest IN YOU. Through death and its confines, the Spirit brings LIFE ! The resultant days are the New Life, the New Creature. Dependent on ME for ALL THINGS, even breath.

Not ONLY can I NOT produce this life through my soul, I can't maintain this life through my soul and I can't take credit for this life with this soul into which I make investment in stewardship. I can't move or breathe in the coffin of my own soul in darkness' confines. I can't strike any spark to light the way out with my soul. YOU are the Producer, the Husbandman and the Glory for this New Life in the Spirit, Jesus. Resurrection Life is both the duty and the fulfillment of this soul's perfection,, as SLAVE to Your Spirit's remuneration, bought and OWNED by Blood. I CAN'T conquer the pit without YOU! This New Creature, holding Your Hand through the deaths of all this soul's efforts, desires, pursuits and temporal accoutrements, RISES in the goverment of Your Spirit MANIFEST for Your Glory... SHACHAH__________________